Does anybody take Orlistat or equivalent?

Awful stuff in my opinion, I tried it years ago for about 3-4 days, I experienced that ^^^^^ particular side effect. Do not go far from home/ bathroom when you first try it. It does make you think about fat content in food though!

You will get the side effects at first whilst it deals with what's already inside your body. Once it flushes a bit of that out and you keep low fat you should be fine

I was given some a few years ago to try by a friend. It was a horrible few days after taking a couple of them. Even when you need to pass wind, you have to be sitting on a toilet to do it because... well something else might come out too.

Just don't ever ever fart. Or what you think is a fart.

Why on earth would you eat Chinese food when trying to lose weight and while taking a weight loss medicine?! I absolutely love Chinese food, but I've only had to give it up as part of the diet. The amounts of sugar, carbs, msg and salt etc in Chinese food makes it a less desirable option when trying to lose weight unless your life style is really active. This is NOT backed by any study or science just from me looking at the nutritional info and making a judgment. Also this doesn't apply to home made foods where you can modify them, only to the foods in restaurants & preprepared foods in grocery stores. Once again this is just my opinion there's no point in arguing with me, no one is going to change my mind.

Did your doctor tell you that not only are bad fats absorbed, but good ESSENTIAL fats as well? Good fats are needed for health as well as good metabolic function. So you now have to supplement good fats back into the diet.
Also alcohol trumps use of any energy source in the body till it's fully metabolized, so no carbs or fat are used during this time for fuel.

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alienws1998 wrote: »

Why on earth would you eat Chinese food when trying to lose weight and while taking a weight loss medicine?! I absolutely love Chinese food, but I've only had to give it up as part of the diet. The amounts of sugar, carbs, msg and salt etc in Chinese food makes it a less desirable option when trying to lose weight unless your life style is really active. This is NOT backed by any study or science just from me looking at the nutritional info and making a judgment. Also this doesn't apply to home made foods where you can modify them, only to the foods in restaurants & preprepared foods in grocery stores. Once again this is just my opinion there's no point in arguing with me, no one is going to change my mind.

I'm losing weight and I eat Chinese from time to time.

alienws1998 wrote: »

PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »

Scrossy1983 wrote: »

Thanks guys, no side effects so far, but yesterday drunk a ltr vodka and had a Chinese takeaway... So not looking forward to the rest of today

See, this is why I don't understand why someone would take this. There is nothing wrong with the occasional take-out meal, so why take something that gives you volcanic eruption BMs as punishment for it?

While I don't use these kinda meds myself (on a lchf diet the effects would be disastrous) I think the principle is similar to an alcoholic taking that med that causes a violent physical to alcohol. For some people, it helps to increase their will power if they know there will be an immediate negative effect. I'm not defending it just trying to explain a possible rationale, there maybe others too but this could be one possible reason

Except fat isn't bad. Excess fat is. Fat isn't toxic, alcohol is. Expelling nearly all fat from the system isn't healthy and putting people off consumption of fat isn't healthy either. It is needed for hormone function and nutrient absorption.